TPOF Ep 116 – LEGO BATMAN MOVIE!

TPOF Ep 116 – LEGO BATMAN MOVIE!

This Monday (or Tuesday-ish, sorry) is ALL NEW as we discuss,
break down, and altogether rrrip up THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE and
SUICIDE SQUAD! (One of the films we loved and the other one
filled us with rage - guess which is which. It's not that hard.)

This week is ALSO about the LIVE ACTION BEAUTY and the BEAST,
roadkill, DEREK JETER, Indiana Jones, BATMAN v. SUPERMAN, a new
kind of NIGHTMARE, the 80s band MADNESS, a pack of PARTY POPPERS,
calling Will Smith WILLIAM, the YOUNG ONES, my son's nightmare,
retirement in the past, HOT TOPIC, based on the novel PUSH by
Sapphire, Margo Robbie's ever changing American accent, NO BIG
BADDIE, the JARED LETO problem, WILL SMIFF ("Woo, I'm a Hitch"),
Django Unchained starring WILL SMITH, the DJANGO RAP, Steve's
STORYTIMES, smoking out at lunch, KARAOKE STEVE, break the walls
down, MTV'S CLONE HIGH, The LAST MAN on EARTH, Lego homosexuality,
MCGUFFIN AIRLINES, Eddie Izzard, BUNNY LOVES DORA the EXPLORER,
doing the Bat tussi, and falling in love all over again with
ADAM WEST!

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Three years after saving the Lego Universe with Emmet
and Wyldstyle, Batman continues fighting crime in Gotham
City. During a mission to prevent the Joker from destroying
the city, Batman hurts his arch-rival's feelings by telling
him he is not as important in his life as he thinks he is,
leading Joker to seek the ultimate revenge on him.

The following day, Batman attends the city's winter gala
as his alter ego Bruce Wayne to celebrate the retirement of
Commissioner Gordon and the ascension of his daughter Barbara
as the Gotham City Police Department's new police commissioner,
but is infuriated when she announces her plans to restructure
the city's police to function without the need of Batman. The
Joker crashes the party with the rest of Gotham City's villains,
but has all of them surrender to the police. Despite realizing
that this makes him no longer relevant to the city's safety,
Batman suspects his arch-rival is up to something and decides
to stop him by banishing him into the Phantom Zone, a prison
for some of the most dangerous villains in the Lego multiverse.

As he plots to steal Superman's Phantom Zone Projector,
Alfred intervenes and advises him to take charge of Dick Grayson,
whom Bruce had unwittingly adopted as his ward during the gala,
to which he eventually agrees and fosters Dick as Robin. The
pair manage to recover the Projector from the Fortress of
Solitude, before breaking into Arkham Asylum and using it on
the Joker. Annoyed at his recklessness and suspecting that Joker
wanted this to happen, Barbara locks up Batman and Robin. While
the Projector is being seized as evidence, Harley Quinn steals
it back and uses it to free the Joker as she did not surrender
to the police as part of the Joker's plan. Afterwards, Joker
unleashes the villains trapped within the Phantom Zone to cause
havoc upon Gotham including Lord Voldemort, King Kong, Sauron,
the Wicked Witch of the West, Medusa, Agent Smith and his clones,
the Daleks, the Gremlins, and the Kraken.

Realizing that the city does still need him, Barbara releases
Batman and Robin and reluctantly teams up with them to stop the Joker,
with the team joined by Alfred. Batman soon finds himself able to
trust and rely on the others, allowing them to defeat Sauron, but
upon reaching Wayne Island, he prevents the team from joining him
in action, out of fear of losing them like his parents; he confronts
Joker alone. Believing Batman to be incapable of change, Joker zaps
him to the Phantom Zone, before stealing the Batcave's stash of
confiscated bombs and heading for the city's Energy Facility. Arriving
in the Phantom Zone, Batman witnesses the harm his selfishness has
caused to everyone, and slowly accepts his greatest fear when Robin,
Barbara and Alfred decide to come to his aid. Making a deal with the
Phantom Zone's gatekeeper, Phyllis, to bring back all the villains in
exchange for returning to Gotham City, Batman arrives to save the trio
and apologizes, requesting their help to save the day.

With Joker planning to detonate the bombs beneath the Energy
Facility, causing the plates beneath Gotham to come apart and drop
the city into the infinite abyss, Batman turns Barbara into Batgirl,
and alongside Alfred and Robin, team up with Gotham's other villains,
who felt neglected by Joker, allowing them to successfully send the
escaped villains back to the Phantom Zone. However, Batman fails to
stop the bombs from detonating, causing the city to split apart.
Batman reluctantly convinces Joker that he is the reason for being
the hero he is, and working together alongside Batman's friends, the
villains, and the city's inhabitants, chain link themselves together,
reconnecting the city's plates.

With the city saved, Batman prepares to be taken back into the
Phantom Zone to fulfill his bargain, only to be rejected by Phyllis, who
chooses to let him remain after seeing how much he had changed in order
to save everyone. Batman allows Joker and the rest of his rogues gallery
to temporarily escape, with the confidence that whenever they return,
they will be no match for the combined team of himself, Robin, Batgirl,
and Alfred.